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Thanks for the links, Richard. I read some of "These Things Are True" after you linked it in your newsletter,…
I thought I'd share some links to articles, newsletters, etc., often but not always written by Iranians: * The Factory…
That wasn't on purpose, but now that you mention it, I see it too. Neat.
Since you don't mention it in the chicken fat list it must be just pareidolia that makes me see the…
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Category Archives: Race, racism and related issues
Homicides Are A Lot More Likely To Be “Justified” If The Corpse Is Black
John Roman examines the data on race, Stand Your Ground jurisdictions, and justifiable homicide: Are there are racial disparities in justifiable homicide rulings? Out of 53,000 homicides in the database, 23,000 have a white shooter and a white victim. The … Continue reading →
CNN’s Question Answers Itself
Hint: The one CNN felt it had to use a euphemism for, is worse. I haven’t been able to find a video of the entire segment, but here’s a clip of Tim Wise, the dude on the lower right:
“Being a Woman is Not a Tool to Punish or Humiliate Anyone”
Dilar Dirik has written a wonderful piece, Kurdish Men for Gender Equality, about a story involving Iran that is worth knowing about. In April of this year, a local court in Iran started sentencing male convicts to being dressed as … Continue reading →
Rape, Harassment, Race, Fear of Crime, and So On.
So a blog I subscribed to on (the soon to be late and lamented) Google Reader ages ago – mostly likely because I thought the author wrote something really excellent – recently began a new blog. Clicking over, I found … Continue reading →
Our Loving Each Other Would Not Be Now The Obstacle That It Was Then
This article in The New York Times, by Choe Sang-Hun, fascinates me: [Jasmine] Lee, 35, who was born Jasmine Bacurnay in the Philippines, made history in April when she became the first naturalized citizen — and the first nonethnic Korean — to win … Continue reading →
The Racism in this NRA Video Needs to be Called Out
I’ve seen this video written about in two places, The New York Times and The New Yorker. Neither of them takes on the video’s obvious (to me anyway) dog-whistle (and maybe not even dog-whistle) racism. First, there is the divide-and-conquer … Continue reading →
The Problem with Dog-Whistle Politics and Relying on Technical Deniability
We’ve discussed this before here many times, but John Holbo at Crooked Timber has a post up that’s so astoundingly good I wanted to draw everyone’s attention to it. The post is, “Political Dog-whistles Don’t Have An Off-Switch For The … Continue reading →
Blogging My Summer Classes: Changing Times and Words You’re Not Supposed to Say
My wife and I went last night to a farewell gathering for one of her cousins, who is moving with her husband to California. We were at Bar 13 in Manhattan, a place I havent been to since I gave … Continue reading →
Obama and Pot
David Maraniss‘ forthcoming biography of President Obama reports that in high school and college, Obama not only inhaled, he was a rather intense user. This quote from Penn Jillette is apropos: Do we believe, even for a second, that if … Continue reading →
‘Scuse Me, Great Nations Coming Through
Remember John Derbyshire? Of course you do! He’s the incredibly creepy guy who got fired from National Review Online for writing an incredibly racist screed for an online site frequented by Pat Buchanan and Steve Sailer. Anyhow, Derbyshire may have … Continue reading →
Watcher: I can’t really subscribe to the school of thought that intervention is obviously, tautologically, evidently wrong but I also…